Full Moon Poets at 101 Artists' Colony

Following is a poem read at one of our poetry readings by one of our most famous Full Moon Poet, Trish Dugger, proclaimed by the Encinitas City Council as Honorary Poet Laureate of Encinitas on January 12, 2005.

Frog Fest

Frogs are having fun,

whooping it up

down at the Frog Fest

in the creek,

while I am struggling

in my thought kitchen,

trying to boil up a batch

of words, snapping them

off like green beans...

ping ping ping

into the bottom

of an empty mental pot.

Spring has sprung.

Frogs are croaking.

I want to cook up a poem

but the fire’s not smoking.

Guess I’ll kick off my shoes

and get a bucket

and go on down to the creek

and catch me a few.

Frogs are not

as slippery as words.

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